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  • adjective superlative form of favourable: most favourable.

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Examples

  • Indeed, it does not seem possible that, in any of the favourablest outward circumstances, Johnson's life could have been other than a painful one.

    English Literature for Boys and Girls

  • But these commissions of my patrons came to an end; they could afford me no permanent establishment: and ever since, my wife has continued urging me still more to go upon the stage again; though, at present, alas, her own situation is none of the favourablest for exhibiting herself, with honour, in the eyes of the public.

    Chapter I. Book III 1917

  • But we will take the favourablest hypothesis ever started for the Parliament; the favourablest, though I believe it is not the true one, but too favourable.

    Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History Thomas Carlyle 1838

  • Indeed, it does not seem possible that, in any the favourablest outward circumstances, Johnson's life could have been other than a painful one.

    Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History Thomas Carlyle 1838

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